Posted on 07/09/2018 11:32:10 PM PDT by Innovative
The Trump administration on Monday lost a bid to persuade a federal court to allow long-term detention of migrant families, a significant legal setback to the president’s immigration agenda.
In a ruling that countered nearly every argument posed by the Justice Department, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles held that there was no basis to amend a longstanding consent decree that requires children to be released to licensed care programs within 20 days. The government said that long-term confinement was the only way to avoid separating families when parents were detained on criminal charges.
Judge Gee said the administration’s request to modify the decree, the 1997 Flores agreement, was “a cynical attempt” to shift immigration policymaking to the courts in the wake of “over 20 years of congressional inaction and ill-considered executive action that have led to the current stalemate.”
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Oh but it’s okay as f*** to detain Paul Manafort in the hole for however Persecutor Bob needs, right?
NO catch and release!!!
Sorry, but SCOTUS seems to have told these lower court thugs that POTUS, according to the LAW, has authority to enforce.
DOJ needs to use the language of that recent opinion to ignore these little ones...since it is clear the judges are merely ruling against Trump because they hate him.
No prob., send them back swiftly.
This judge is stupid. Pres. Trump is trying to get CONGRESS to do something about the separation problem, something that Obama didn’t do in 8 years in office.
You’re damned if you “do try” but not damned if “you don’t”.
This judge should be thrown off the bench and out the door, without opening it. Might knock some sense into her head.
in other words, the children can be separated from adults and held longer than 20 days as long as they are in 'licensed care programs' ? Works for me.
Exactly. Send them all back and the damn judge with them.
There are too damn many federal courts and judges. The Constitution only creates SCOTUS. Congress shoukd pare down the rest
Uh that quote is not anything that should be in a judicial opinion.
Which’d put us back where we were, but since we can’t separate them, they think they’ve created a situation where the only choice is to release them. But there’s another option: put up fences and razor wire around the licensed care facility and lock up both mom and the kid there.
First, you have to show that these "kids" are biologically related to the adults they are with.
This isn’t really a “loss” for Trump. It’s a loss for all the malcontents who insisted that illegal immigrant families need to be kept together. The judge is forcing immigration officials to put the kids in foster care — which is what they’ve been doing for years.
Send them back to their home countries.
Simple answer: give the families the option of keeping the children with the adults in detention, handing them over to other family of child protective services, or returning as a family group to their home country. Make it their call.
No. It's a cyncical attempt to get Congress to do its job.
A Bowbama appointee! Go figure!
A Zerobama black-robed clown-b*tch who thinks she's the president of the United States!
Can't wait for the Suprmes to club these clowns down like baby Harp seals...
Juck the fudge.
Unless Congress makes it a policy to impeach overturned jurists, there is nothing to dissuade them from continued meddling where they don’t belong.
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